One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.

I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

God is the one who chooses our rulers

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

No man ever became wise by chance.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.